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Background and Justification:
Over 70,000 hip fractures occur annually in the UK. The total cost of care is over £2 billion with 10% mor-
tality at 30 days and up to 30% mortality at one year. Their care is dependent on close multidisciplinary
relationships between many specialties due to the complex nature of these patients, both in terms of their
medical co-morbidities and their ability to rehabilitate.
BOA\ BGS Blue Book “Care of patients with a fragility fractures” 2007 (www.boa.ac.uk)
NICE clinical guidance 124 (2011) – The management of hip fracture in adults
NICE technology appraisal 161 (2011) – Secondary prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women
NICE clinical guidance 103 (2010) – Delirium
NICE clinical guidance 42 (2006) – Dementia
NICE clinical guidelines 21 (2004) – Falls